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2nd Wave - where are all the deaths then?
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostDying of Covid is more than inconvenient.
#JustaskingOld Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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Originally posted by Rearden Metal View PostNo, I think the whole thing has been damaging mentally to a lot of people. Old folks isolated from their grandchildren, students confined to their halls with the prospect of not being able to return to their homes at Christmas. It's a little bit more than inconvenient.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by Rearden Metal View PostWell, following that lohic we should be minimising contact with other people full stopOriginally posted by Rearden Metal View Postas a sociable person, I find intolerable.
Same with driving my car .... I get the logic of keeping below 30 in built up areas, specifically near schools, but I like to drive my car as fast as possible at all times so I find it intolerable that I should have to drive within speed limit rules just to save the lives of others.
I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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Originally posted by Rearden Metal View PostNo, I think the whole thing has been damaging mentally to a lot of people. Old folks isolated from their grandchildren, students confined to their halls with the prospect of not being able to return to their homes at Christmas. It's a little bit more than inconvenient.I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostYeah, with you there 100%
Same with driving my car .... I get the logic of keeping below 30 in built up areas, specifically near schools, but I like to drive my car as fast as possible at all times so I find it intolerable that I should have to drive within speed limit rules just to save the lives of others.
Driving like a lunatic through a built up area is highly likely to injure or kill someone.
Going on holiday, meeting up with people in a pub, whatever, is highly unlikely to kill anyone, given the lethality of this virus. Particularly if the govt had followed the advice of Prof Gupta and put in place a framework to aggressively shield the vulnerable.Comment
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Originally posted by Rearden Metal View PostHardly comparable scenarios.
Driving like a lunatic through a built up area is highly likely to injure or kill someone.
Going on holiday, meeting up with people in a pub, whatever, is highly unlikely to kill anyone, given the lethality of this virus. Particularly if the govt had followed the advice of Prof Gupta and put in place a framework to aggressively shield the vulnerable.Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostWhich one of those groups best reflects your personal position?
My parents haven't seem my son since March. Partly because of restrictions, partly because they've been scared witless by the media.Comment
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Originally posted by Zigenare View PostNo it isn't. Losing control and ploughing into a bus load of Nuns is.Comment
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Originally posted by Rearden Metal View PostNeither.
My parents haven't seem my son since March. Partly because of restrictions, partly because they've been scared witless by the media.Comment
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